The swag at the Republican National Convention is pathetic!
What’s swag? It’s free stuff — you know, like those yardsticks and cap snafflers they give out at the State Fair. Most big gatherings like this have any number of people handing out product samples, pens and various other branded tchotchkes.
I didn’t spend my time actually hunting [...]

Let’s be honest, the great Minnesota get-together is my second home. As someone who grew up feasting on Pronto Pups and gulping down Rudy Boschwitz milk, the State Fair is an annual pilgrimage. I no longer venture through the gates tied to my five siblings with a frazzled mother barking orders, but I still visit [...]

We were talking the other day about something I’ve always found fascinating: words that seemingly have no opposite — or at least, an opposite that’s rarely, if ever, used.
I first thought of this years ago, reading something by H.L. Mencken in which he described a baby as “gruntled.” In all my years of reading and [...]

Thursday was a beautiful day for an anvil drop. Our neighbor to the south, Gardner Hardware, started the tradition in 2004, heaving a bright-red anvil from the top  of their store, four floors up, onto an unsuspecting car below.
Thanks to Gopher Towing for providing the target! Enjoy the show.
Just another day in the North Loop.

For [...]

An event took place last summer that immediately entered Fast Horse lore. Someone glanced out the window one afternoon and said, “Hey, there’s some woman in a bikini and chains across the street.” It turned out that she was also wearing fur boots as she draped herself provocatively across a loading dock.

As we looked on, [...]

Today on Idea Peepshow we’re introducing a new feature that we* like to call BattleFight. BattleFight is a fictitious battle debate inspired by childhood “who would win in a fight” discussions as well as visual content such as this, this, and this. BattleFight combines the curious with the youthful mindset in a way that will [...]

For the first BattleFight debate, two behemoths of darkness go head-to-head accompanied by their favorite communication technologies:Â
Lord Voldemort and Twitter VS. Darth Vader and the iPhone 3G.

Darth Vader/iPhone
Strengths: 

Crazy lightsaber skills
Telekinetic choke hold
Exceptional pilot
Widescreen video and the ability to shop for music with just one tap

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Weaknesses:

GPS locator - opponent can track location and progress
Limited phone service
iPhone [...]

Don’t fret about whether you can afford that $389,000 split-level in Eden Prairie. Forget about whether that Uptown condo will come down just a bit more into your price range. Instead, take a look at what your money will buy if you’re willing to expand your geographic range a bit — to, say, South Africa, [...]